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Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.

Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.